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THE ST. PAUL GLOBE
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30, 18.8.
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SUNDAVS_WEATHER.
Fair; Cooler.
By the United States Weather Bureau—
MINNESOTA Fair; cooler in eastern portion;
terly winds. WISCONSIN—
Fair, ->r ceded by rain or snow near Lake
Michigan; cooler; brisk northwesterly winds.
IOWA Fair; fresh northwesterly winds.
; DAKOTA— Fair; wanner in eastern
q; variable winds. NORTH DAKOTA—
g temperature; variable winds.
MONI easing cloudiness; warmer;
southerly winds.
YESTERDAY'S MEANS—^Barometer, bO.io;
temperature, -2; relative humidity. 88;
wind at S p. m., northwest; weather, cloudy;
maximum temperature, 15; minimum temper
ature, !<>: daily rang.-. 5; amount of nrecipi
n>. last twenty-four hOUES, trace.
RIVER AT B A. M.
Danger Gauge Change in
Line. Reading. _1 Houis.
St. Paul 14 4.2 -0-2
La Crosse l'» 3-6 *0.1
Davenport 15 2.6 *0.2
St. Louis 30 9.1 *1.3
—Fall. *R'.se.
Note—Barometer corrected for temperature
and elevation. — P. F. Lyons, Observer.
After all. Paris is about the same in
war a? in peace, pretty warlike all
the time. »
You've got none the best of me, Mr.
Emperor of China, in the rumor busi
ness. — Dreyfus.
The president is bark in Washington
y to look over any other peace
jubilee proposition's which may be put
X Core him.
Paul hasn't had a big* fire in
many months. Perhaps we are wait
ing for the big "fire" from the county
building Nov. S.
Fiance ha? put out a yellow book,
but wait till Spain publishes the only
genuine, name - blown - In - the - bottle
■.v" Look of the year.
Dupuy, who is forming a' new French
cabinet, is only forty-seven. He'll feel
as though he were seventy-seven after
he has held the job a few days.
Th^ candidates are now busily tell
ing what they will do if elected. It is
more to the point to know whom they
will "do" after they are elected.
Mme. Sofia Scalchi has been di
vorced from Count Lolli. It is not
known whether she couldn't stand his
name or he couldn't stand her singing.
You see it's this way, Blanco: If you
dent move out of Havana pretty soon,
Unci' Sam will take pleasure in giving
you Christmas humiliation on the toe
of hij hoot.
The humor of this campaign is com
ing out little by little. A Kentuckian
running for congress as an independent
had no party emblem, so he headed his
ticket with his photograph.
Human life does not appear to be
valued very highly in Minneapolis. A
physician over there shot a hole
through a young man visiting at his
house, and the jury awarded the latter
$10.
The Chicago Times-Herald doesn't
seem to he much of a Republican pa
per this fail. It has the following:
For governor, John R. Tanner. Plat
form — Anarchy, nullification and mur
der.
Now it is stated that it was not
Sampson or Schley, but Great Britain
which discovered Cervera's hiding
place. Never mind that. We all know
who gave Cervera's fleet its resting
place.
Not all of the mean people in this
world are men. An Ohio boy sent $37.50
to his girl in Hungary to bring her to
America so he could marry her. On the
way over she fed in love with another
fellow and married him.
The saloonkeepers of America have
a dark cloud on the horizon ahead of
them. A Philadelphia doctor has a
plan to inoculate children against ine
briety. His scheme, if it works well,
will drive the drink dispensing estab
lishment out of existence in about
1,000 years.
I will not permit the Americans to take
possession until the entire Spanish arniv haa
embarked. I shall resist.— Blanco.
Stay right where you are, Blanco.
The American government will take
great pleasure in using you as a tar
get for our Krag-Jorgensons, which, in
tlie words of the illustrious Indian
fighter, Arthur E. Joke Pegler, are "a
thing apart."
Colorado has a boss tax dodger nam
ed Jiihn J. Tootles. He escaped taxa
tion at Colorado Springs on the ground
that he lived at St. Joseph, Mo., ana
at St. Joseph because he lived at Colo-
Springs. W_en the two towns
got to comparing notes they were as
tounded. Both will ask him to move
away, and, by the way, he might
change his name. Tootles is what one
would call a very unpretty name.
The startling announcement comes
tn in New York that Col. George E.
ring Jr., who, under the mayoralty
of William L. Strong, served 5-0
tly as the chief of the health
ailment of that city, died of yellow
lay morning in an apart-
I house there, having contract
ed the disease during his recent visit
to Havana.
His was a sad ending of a useful life,
which he had made censpicuouts by
reason of his high qualifications as a
sanitary engineer. Col. Waring ac
complished a great deal in the direc
tion of the improvement of the sanitary
system of New York city. He was
courageous in the administration of
his offlce — a -position he did not seek
or require, because he was possessed
of ample means — and he was, forth* r.
more, a man of that peculiar individual
ity which enables one to pursue a
path of duty regardless of the exas
perating criticisms of his inferiors.
Col. Waring had made a study of the
important subject of municipal sani-
On account of his record for
efficiency in New York, President Mc-
Kinley selected him as a desirable citi
zen to visit Havana and report, as a
result of his investigation, suggestions
and plans looking to the impiovement
of that and other Cuban cities to the
extent that the scourge of yellow fever
should cease to find a breeding place
on the island itself. His own death
from yellow fever is in the nature of
martyrdom. It is feared that the re
sults of his inquiries and observations
can never be availed of, although it
is to be hoped that he has left behind
him something tangible in the way of
recommendations,
The Business View.
Business men are inclined to take a
very plain, common-sense business
view of polities, and since we are hear
ing a great deal just now about the
business men's vote, it might be well
to inquire where that vote will find
lodgment on the question of governor.
I>o business men— honest business
men, we mean — approve of that style
of "business" that was done by the
Guam my Loan company during the
time William Henry Eustis was a man
aging director of that eonoerg & n( l wa s
writing testimonials commending the
high social, moral and business char
actor of Menace? If SO, they should,
by all means, vote for Mr. Eustis.
Do business men approve of the
transaction by which the city of Minne
apolis, was saddled with a hosoital site
that was worth about 25 cents on the
dollar of what it cost the city, and all
because of the energetic partiality of
the then mayor of Minneapolis for the
Bracket* family? If so, they will note
for Mr. Fustis.
During the session of the legislature
of 1595. when the construction of the
state capitol was under consideration,
a committee from Minneapolis, headed
by Mr. Eustis, appeared before that |
body and offered to donate Loring j
park and a million dollars if the legis
lature would move the capital from St.
Paul to Minneapolis. The delegation,
and Air. Eustis in particular, knew that
Loring park could not be deeded for
such a purpose; that Minneapolis
could not as a city contribute one mil
lion or any other number of dollars for
" such an object, and that the only re
sult to be gained by this kind of a
bunco game was to gratify an unrea
soning hatred against St. Paul. Was
that business? If so, business men,
and particularly those of St. Paul,
should rally 'round the Guaranty Loan
candidate for governor.
And the business men of the East,
who, we are told, will be afraid to in
vest morey in Minnesota — what will
they think about it? Will they be at
tracted to a state which is overrun
and tax-ridden by an army of political
parasites, who eat up the substance of
the farmers and tax the working man
to support a political "organization?"
Or will they rather take their chances
in om that has rebuked extravagance
and profligacy and corruption by elect
ing an honorable and unhampered man
as its governor?
Investors are no fonder of paying
exorbitant taxes than are other folks,
and the election of one upright man
for governor, just for a change, will
not 'drive capital away." Capital is
supposed to feel safest in the keeping
of honest men. Do business men be
lieve that W T illiam Henry Eustis, the
candidate of the elevator combine, the
mining combine, the milling combine,
and the Twin City Rapid Transit com
pany, wiil give an honest administra
tion, if he honestly wanted to? If they
do, then William Henry Eustis is their
man, and they are the men for Wil
liam Henry Eustis.
Business men are not fools, even
if some of the Republican politicians
down the street think they are. Fools
do not succeed In business. Business
men want to see the state's interests
in the same kind of hands that they
entrust their own business affairs to.
They want to see the state government
conducted on business principles and
not used ac a mere machine through
which to grind out votes for the con
tinuance in office of the same set of
hungry leeches year after year. They
believe in having taxes equitably dis
tributed. They must believe, If they
stop a moment to consider, that a
.party which becomes so arrogant and
impudent that it can take up the most
conspicuous tool of the most objection
able combines in the state, and nomi
nate him for governor, has survived its
usefulness, or at least is in urgent
need of cultivating the humilities and
especially the virtue of honesty.
Business men who take this business
view of matters will vote for John
Lind, and we are inclined to believe
that there are more of them than the
mrnagers of either party have sus
pected.
Our Neighbor's Flag of Distress.
The Dispatch is flying a flag of dis
tress over Its legislative ticket. Davis
and loyalty to the party are the only
excuses it offers for any member of its
tried - and - found - wanting delegation.
The personal representative of the Dis
patch and city railroad company ls in
urgent need of votes, to which, by rea
son of his unsavory reputation as a
legislator and lobbyist, as well as his
disloyalty to party associates, he is not
personally entitled. It is admitted that
Hiler H. Horton, as chairman of the
present city committee, betrayed Kie
fer, the head of the ticket which he
was appointed to support, and, com
ing still closer to the prayer for aid ad
dressed to the friends of Senator Davis,
many voters are asking for evidence
that Horton has not been equally dis
loyal to him. The solicitous watchful
ness of the Davis managers over Hor
ton during the session of 1893 is still
remembered. The rumors of monetary
inducements for the then grudgingly
given but much needed vote are still
current. Is such a man one with whom
to conjure party fealty. Many Repub
licans say no, and promise to strength
en their party by a much needed re
buke at the polls. Any other answer
means the vicarious sacrifice of the in
terests of St. Paul, which before the
next legislature will be many and im
portant. -Ml Democrats and hundreds
of independent Republicans will vote
together for the election of John E.
Stryker. who, as senator from the Thir
ty-sixth district, will be at all times
ready to protect and advance the wel
fare of the capital city.
The Jo'nt TraTfi: Decision.
Judging from the echoes which are
coming in from the decision of tha
United States supreme court in the
Joint Traffic association case consider
able imaginary disturbance has been
caused to the system of transportation
throughout the country.
The anti-trust law was based upon
the principle that nothing should be
done, through the process of combina
tion, which should act against trade
and commerce by restraining a free
distribution of products in every di
rection. There ana those who think
they recognize in this decision a spe
cific attack upon the transportation
hues oil the country, while other __t-
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stitutions which, in their conduct, ap
pear to be operated in hostility to the
anti-trust law are not assailed in their
sti\>r.g entrenchments. The reply to
this complaint must be that the haw
has not b<?en appealed ,to by those who
suffer or imagine they suffer from
these other truat combinations, in the
same measure in which the court has
in- n appealed to to determine this im
portant question of transportation
rates.
Immediately following the decision
in the Trans-Missouri case the Joint
Traffic association, in its concentrated
fatuity, pretended that the organtaa
tion under that head was a sort of
free will agency over which the su
preme law of the land had no control.
In other words the Joint Traffic assjcl
ation constituted itself a family
of public carriers. They assembled
together and said: "There are so many
of us in this congregation; we are all
entitled to a living; we must derive
that living from th,- constituency that
we serve; we must adjust our rates In
such a manner that no one of us thirty -
one shall Buffer." Now, if the number
of icads to be considered had been six
teen instead of thirty-one, conditions
might have been different; but the mul
t-plicatdon of roads contemplated,
through their requirements for suprort,
exactions from the public which weie
wholly unjustifiable and which
amounted to a tribute calculated to
excite rebellion against such methods
of control of individual rights associat
ed with the commerce of the land.
This decision strikes by one well di
rected blow at the support which many
railroads have relied upon for their
existence. Competition is wholesome,
when its principles do not involve pi
racy and robbery. Let us suppose, for
a moment, that a band of capitalists
should at this moment project and con
struct another railway lne betwe n St.
Paul and the Pacific coast, In the
Northwest, In antagon'sm to the G-eat
Northern, Northern Pacific, and, we
may add, the "Soo" connection with
the Canadian Pacific. Wou'd there bo
any justification in a combination of
all the lines with a view to mulcting
the shippers out of an excess of rates
all along the way, having for its ob
ject only the compensation of all the
roads, Including the additional cost
created by the advent of the inter
loper?
All these questions ought to be view
ed from a platform of common sense
and common honesty. There ia so much
traffic to be carried. There is ample
.competition in all directions. Bit we in
the Atlantic seaboaid and the Missis
sippi river the facilities are over abun
dant. The tendency of rates in this
country has been downward. They
are already only about one-half the
transportation rates of continential
Europe. Development of communities
will produce annually increasing vol
umes of traffic. These must prove the
sustaining elements cf the roads n >w
in existence. Competition should be
fair and open, and it should not be in
cumbent upon any one organization to
aid in the support of a weaker line.
The roads should stand on their m 1 its
— on their business capacity to attract
traffic. If they are not supplied with
the important adjuncts of talent in
bringing grist to their mills, they de
serve to yield up their individuality
and submit to absorption by lines of
greater strength. This last suggestion,
after all, will, when carried into effect,
solve this whole question involving •dis
putations over rates. The railway sit
uation today, in this 'country, is in
choate. The fabric is well laid, but its
utilization must be controlled in the
future by a few masterful minds whose
training in the business world shall
qualify them to gather the strings of
the entire web to one base, and that
base must recognize amenability to the
law and the equitable rights of every
patron of railway lines throughout the
country.
The Constitutional Am;-ndm_nts.
Three amendments to the constitu
tion will be submitted to the voters of
the state at the approaching election.
They have been duly published in the
press, as well as In the published laws,
and it would be an instructive com
ment on the referendum could it be as
certained how many persons, excepting
the compositors and proofreaders, have
read them or considered their effects.
The votes on previous amendments in
dicate that there is a large number of
voters who give these important mat
ters no attention whatever. It is not
probable that this year will prove aii
exception.
And still there are two amendments
that are of exceptional value, one to
the voters in the cities, the other to
every voter in the state. The one is
an amendment to the amendment
adopted in 1895, commonly designated
as the "home rule amendment," which
obviates some of the objections to that
measure. The charter commission ia
limited now in its tenure of office to six
years instead of being practically a
permanent body; it is obliged to sub
mit amendments to the charter when
petitioned by 5 per cent of the voters;
and the classification of cities by pop
ulation is broadened. This amendment
will be of interest mainly to citizens of
cities, and, outside of them, the vote
upon it Is likely to be insignificant. In
the cities the vote should be full and
unanimous In Its favor.
The other amendment, the second on
the list, is one of general importance
and should not be neglected by any
voter. Its purpose is to defeat any
proposed amendment unless it shall
have, not, as at present, a majority of
those voting upon the proposition, but
of all the votes that are cast at the
election at which an amendment is
submitted. This, unquestionably, was
the intention of the existing provision.
Its language Ls susceptible of no other
fair construction. The framers evident
ly designed that so important a pro
ceeding as the change of or addition to
the organic law should not be effective
unless it had the assent of a majority
of all w r ho voted, not only up-jn it, but
on any other subject. But the supreme
court evaded the plain direction of tha
constitution by the process of "distin
guishing" and defeated the plain intent
of the framers. It is said that tho
court was minded to give the provi
sion the effect intended, but that, in
its councils on the case that involved
that provision, it was suggested that
tho thirteenth amendment to the con
stitution of the United States was rati
fied by just the requisite number, three
fourths, of the states; that the pro
posed amendment did not receive a ma
jority of all the votes cast at the elec
tion at which the question was submit
ted to the voters of this state, and
that, consequently, If the court held
such a majority essential, it would in
validate the thirteenth amendment.
Whereupon the court held that only a
majority of those voting upon a pro
posed amendment ls needed for Its
adoption.
But at this day, after thirty years ofl
acquiescence in the construction of the
supreme court, the voters are asked
to provide that no amendment shall be
effective unless it have a majority of
all the votes cast, not for or against it,
but for the party candidates, Judging
the future by the past, it is evident
that hereafter, if this amendment is
adopted, there- can be no amendment of
the constitution*whatever; for, if any
future amendment shares the treatment
accorded those in the past, it will not
have a sufficient majority to secure its
adoption. One may well ask what is
the purpose! of this amendment? Its
effect is quite clear; why is that effect
desired? Were the legislators who pro
posed it fearful that forces are at work
that would demand some radical
change in the constitution? Are there
influences that are content with the
construction put upon some features of
the constitution and desire its perpetu
ation? Certainly, as a general proposi
tion, it is desirable that amendments
should have a majority of all the vot
ers, but certain it is that they never
have had, and probable it is that they
never will have. Shall the number who
do think about these changes, who
study them and vote intelligently upon
them, have the result determined l\v
the thoughtless who do not care and
who neglect to vote upon the amend
ment? Should a vote uncast count as a
negative vote?
There is this special danger that, un
der the present construction of the con
stitution, this amendment may be
adopted by a minority vote unless at
tention is given to it and a strong
negative vote cast. It should be de
feated.
Humbugs, Frauds and Swindlers.
It must be apparent to those who
have read Judge Bunn's decision in the
case of La Chance vs. The Globe
either that there is not law enough on
the statute books to protect the well
meaning citizens of this community,
or that whatever there is is not well
understood and enforced.
Here was a "humbug, fraud and
swindler," as Judge Bunn characteriz
ed him, doing a lucrative business in
the very heart of St. Paul under the
pretense of being a divine healer. His
pretensions would net for an instant
stand the light of investigation in this
enlighteted day and state. And yet
he hung out his sign and waj doing a
rushing business ; in duping the unin
formed, until The Globe exposed
him.
It is true that he was first brought
to the attention of the public by the
Medical Society of Ramsey County, by
whose officers he wag taken into court
ou the ground that he was a pretender
and a fraud. The judge, learned man
of the law, saw nothing in the case
but a legal .technicality, a quibble as
it were, and let him go forth to con
tinue his work of preying upon the
ignorant and the unfortunate. What
kind of a law is it that does not give
protection to the very elect of the
medical fraternity of Ramsey counTy?
And what kind of a judge, might it
not be asked, who sees no harm in this
old fakir and lets him pursue his call
ing unrebuked?
A poor judge, naturally, the reply
would be — the product of a condition
of polities which elevates, not neces
sarily corrupt men to the bench, but
weak, immature beings, who have illy
acquired the rudiments of their calling.
It should be the business of the grand
jury to deal with such an impostor aa
La Chance; and the business of the
county attorney, for the welfare of the
county/ to Undertake the prosecution
against him. -And then again there ia
the doubt whether the humbug, fraud
and swindler would not prove sharper
than the prosecuting attorney, and so
escape punishment — wh'oh, possibly,
the county attorney shares.
If The Globe, as Dr. Brimhall
generously conceded, has done a pub
lic duty by exposing this old rascal,
what shall be said of those officers of
the law who are sworn to defend the
public from frauds, humbugs and
swindlers?
Have they done their duty?
The inference is a fair one that the
judiciary and the prosecuting machin
ery of Ramsey county need stiffening
and straightening; and nothing can
occur hereabouts that will give more
satisfaction to thinking men if the first
step in that process is taken by elect
ing Messrs. Bunn, Michael and Op
penheim on the Bth of November.
Ths Librsry Fund Concerts.
Arrangements have been concluded
by Edward Feldhauser in connection
with the Library Schubsrr. cluib series
of concerts for the benefit of tlie public
library fund. The Theodore Thomas
orchestra will, of 'course, ba the chief
foreign attraction, and most advanta
geous terms were concluded for bring
ing this organization hsre. The lowest
figure at which it could be secured
for a single concert wa3 $2,000 — but a
contract was closed providing for two
additional performances, one in • the
evening and another for a matin-re. The
dates fixed are Thursday and Friday
evenings, Dec. 1 and 2, and Saturday
afternoon, Dec. 3.
Tomorrow the sale will commence of
1,000 special exchange tickets, good for
the entire series of seven concerts to
be given in aid of the library fund, at
a cost of $6.25. These tickets include
the first Thomas concert, and tickets
for the other evening and the matinee
performance will be sold at $1.75, thus
making the cost to holders of exchange
tickets only $2.65 for the three Thomas
concerts, or an average of 90 cents
each. Our local columns state where
the tickets can be procured.
The concerts will be given in the
People's church, on Pleasant avenue.
It is not often that St. Paul is favor
ed with so excellent an opportunity to
patronize and enjoy the high-class
music, of an orchestra of this recog
nized standard. The prices of tickets
have been purposely fixed upon a basis
which would enable every lover of good
music to avail him or herself of this
visitation. It remains for the people
to express their appreciation by a lib
eral patronage of the enterprise which
I is promoted with the meritorious object
of hastening the upbuilding of a fund
which shall secure for St. Paul a decent
horsing place for the public library.
Straws show which way the wind
blows. The First ward of St. Paul,
which is recognized as one of the Re
publican strongholds, was polled by
The Globe'fl 'bright young men, with
the result, as shown in another col
umn, that it is emphatically in favor
of the election of John Lind for gov
ernor. Mr. Lind will carry Ramsey
county just as he will carry Hennepin
county, the home of the Republican
candidate for governor. The people
want a change. They are tired of an
organization which has maintained
one party in power for forty years.
This is an off year ln which state is
sues alone are Involved. The people
propose to turn the rascals out
Epistles to St. Paul,
W. R. John sob was over ln Minneapolis
attending a meeting of tho Odd Fellows' home
committee the other day and he sat on the
lefy hand side of an interurban car coming
back. As the car flashed by Cromwell ave
nue the aggressive "Billy" suddenly started
in his seat and, rubbing his eyes anxiously,
exclaimed:
"Have I been in a trance for six weeks?"
Then he looked again. There it was, sure
enough, in flaming letters on a three-sheet
poster, right at tlie corner of Cromwell and
University avenues:
"Vote for Clement J. Minor, Republican
nominee for county auditor."
"I'd like to know where this Minor gets
in, after all the trouble I had getting that
nomination," he continued, and he made life
miserable for the conductor by asking him
continually if he would get the car down to
the court house before "Denny" Sullivan's
offlce closed at 5 o'clock.
"I didn't think Sullivan would throw me
down that coarse," he said.
And it was all because a Minneapolis can
didate, having plenty of three-sheets, had
started in to bill St. Paul, too. in the hope
of carrying St. Anthony Park against that
popular Democrat, Joe Davis
am*
"There's a funny snap," said on c young
rounder to his friend; "look at that cross
eyed hack horse."
"How did that horse come to be that way?"
.asked tho bi eond young man of the driver.
"Watching that paper dog in that restaurant
over there," replied cabby, "they move the
thing into a new place every day."
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Actors have hard luck stories galore, but
here's one. A group of strolling Thespians,
touring Arkansas, finally got "down to cas a "
as tne saying is, but upon the premise of a
manager in Little Rock, who had enjoyed
their show, that he would give them his opera
house, rent free, till they could raise money
enough to get out, the members managed to
scrape around among their friends and get
enough to hi/c one good old hack. There
were six inside, and the heavy villain on top,
when the trunks were left at the hotel as
security, and the party drove over to Little
Rock.
Tho heavy villain waxed eloquent as they
drew near the capital city.
"I have been," he said, "in all the
cities of America and Europe. I have traveled
through two continents, but never have I
seen a more glorious sight than this thriving,
prosperous city of Little Rock, now resplend
ent in the ruddy glories of the setting sun."
"That ain't no sun," remarked the driver,
"that's the opera house burning up."
a m a
Talking about hard luck, the Dorothy
Morton Opera company didn't get any the
best of it here. Hubert Wilke, the hand
some tenor, was asked one night, during the
engagement:
"How was the crowd?"
"The worst ever."
"Not very many, eh?"
"Many! Why, I could have boxed the three
of them in one ring," said the athletic tenor.
Churches and Their Work.
The Tastcral Union of St. Paul will huld
its next monthly meeting Monday morning,
Oct. 31, at 10:30 a. m., in the chapel of Plym
outh church, corner of Wabasha and Summit.
Ail pastors of churches, Catholic and Prot
estant, are nio>_.t cordially invited to be pres
ent and listen to the paper and take part in
the discussion. A. J. D. Haupt, pastor of the
English Lutheran church, wiil present a pa
per on "The Social Evil and How to Control
It," a most timely them 3to precede tho
National Purity conference. The object cf
the Pastoral union, as stated in its consti
tution, is "Mutual acquaintance and inter
change of thought and sympathy." Any pas
tor in sympathy with this object may be
come a member. At the next meeting new
officers wiil be elected for the ensuing six
months.
» * *
Mrs. Anna F. Beilar, of Washington, D. C,
wife of the vice chancellor cf the American
university, of that city, and secre-tary for the
territory cf Alaska in the Women's Home
Missionary Society of the Methodist Church,
will preach in the Clinton Avenue M. E.
church Sunday morning. She has: recently
returned from an extensive tour of thai field,
establishing. hospitals, etc. She is an inter
esting speaker.
* • •
The oyster supper and entertainment given
on Thursday evening by the Young Men's
Club of Plymouth church was a great suc
cess. The supper, which was enjoyed by a
large number of guests, was followed by a
pleasing programme of music and reading.
Those talcing part in the programme were
Miss Winifred Betz, Miss Rice, Mrs. Harruan,
Miss Bertha Pitman, M:ss Emma Robb, and
Messrs. Arthur Brush, Simons and J. C.
Myron.
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The annual sermon of the W. C. T. U. will
be preached by Miss E. W. Greenwood, of
Brooklyn, N. V., Nov. 13, 2:20 p. m., in the
People's church.
mm*
The Parochial club, of St. Mary's, will give
a card party next Monday evening at St..
Mary's school hail.
* * *
Maj. Lcnncx, forty-two years a resident of
India, will speak this evening at the Atlantic
Congregational church, on Conway street and
Bates avenue, on "Brahminism and Chris
tianity of Today in India." Maj. Lennox is
an Oxford man and a major in the Third
Bengal cavalry. His lecture will describe the
fire worshipers, the Yogis and their self
inflicted tortures, the temple of Juggernaut,
idols, pilgrims at Hurdwar, Monkey temple,
hook-swinging of holy men, Christianity in
India, the Salvation Army in India and its
work.
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The ladies of Bethany Congregational
church will hold a bazar in Paul Martin's
block, Colorado and South Wabasha streets,
during the afternoons and evenings of Thuis
day and Friday, Nov. 3 and 4. Thursday
evening a fine New England supper will be
served from 6 till 9 o'clock. Friday evening
light refreshments will be served. The ba
zar will represent th 9 needs of housekeep
ers for the different days of the week, not
forgetting the candy for Sunday. This will
be a fine chance to purchase holiday gifts.
* * •
A meeting will be held this evening in the
Dayton's Bluff German M. E. church to organ
ize a Young Woman's Foreign Missionary
society. Mrs. Schneider, of Minneapolis, and
Mrs. Will Miller will speak.
* * »
The Epworth League of the German M. E.
Church will meet Thursday evening. Tho
subject will bo "Gladstone,"
* m m
Mr. and Mrs. George Ccmmers received in
formally last evening for Rev. S. M. Crothers,
of Cambridge, and Rev. and Mrs. Diven-
Auiong the guests were: Mr. and Mrs. Ames,
Mr. and Mrs. Woodman, Mr. and Mrs. Ester
brook, Mr. and Mrs. Bailey. Mr. aud Mrs.
Willius, Mr. and Mra. Kellogg and other, ol
the First Unitarian church.
Like "¥■«>■'! Reolm."
To The St. Paul Globe:
"Woman's Realm" is a refreshing corner.
Where do you get all those nice stories as
that for instance, of the countess who swept
the French out of Mayence? The whole pa
per is a remarkably clean sheet Our teach
ers away down here are borrowing it greed
ily. — Teacher.
Macon, Ga., Oct. 26, 1898.
Once a Great Paper.
To The St. Paul Globe:
In the olden time the Pioneer Pres« was a
great paper. It never injected mere person
alities into the discussion of grave national
questions, and always fairly stated the posi
tions assumed by Its adversaries.
Now how different.
—Old P. P. Subscriber.
Bt. Paul, Oct 27, 1898.
A Precept in Practice.
The Landlady (ln surprise)— Why, Mr. Hall
rume! What are you doing? Putting that
butter in your tea?
Mr. Hallnime— l wa* always taught, Mt».
Starvum. that the strong should help tht,
I weak— Puclt.
Kr. Dooley on the
Copyright, 1898.
"The' Fr-rinch," said Mr. Doci^y, "ar-re
tumulchuse people."
"Like aB not, 1 ' said .Mr. Hennessy, "there's
some iv our blod in thim. A gocd manny iv
our people wint over wanst. They cudden't
all've been kilt at Fontenoy."
"No," said Mr. Dooley, " 'tia another kind
iv tumulshuse. Whin an Irishman rages 'tis
with wan Idee in his mind, lie's goin' for'ard
as thrue as th' needle in th' camel's eye, as
again a single inimy, an' not stone walls or
irne chain's stop him. He may pause f'r
a dhrink or to take a shy at a polisnaan—
f'r a polisman's always in th' way — but he's
as thrue as th' needle in th" camel's eye, as
Hogan says, to th' objec* iv his hatred. So
he's been f'r four houndred years, an' so
he'll alway-3 be while they'se an Eng'and en
th* map. Whin England purrishes th' Dish
'11 die lv what Hogan calls ongwee, which
Is havin' no wan in the weary wurruld ye
don' love.
"But with th' Fr-rinch, 't's diff'rent. I say
'tis diff'rent with th' Fr-rinch. Thay're an
onaisy an' a thrubbled people. They start
out down th' sthreet, loaded up with cb
scenthe an' cigartets, pavin' blocks an* walk
in' sthicks au 'sthove lids in their hands, cry
in': 'A base Cap. Dhryfuss,' the cap bein*
far off in a cage, by dad. So far so good.
'A base Cap. Dhryfuss,' says 1, 'an' the same
to all thraitors, an' manny iv thim, whether
they ar-re or not.' But along comes a man
with a poor hat. 'Where did he get th' hat?'
demands th' mob. 'Down with th' tad tie *
they say. 'A base th' lid.' An' they da
sthroy th' hat an' th' man undher it suc
cumbs to th' rule iv th' majority an' jino3 th
umb. On they go till they come to a res
taurant. 'Ha!' says they, 'th' rt-ort iv th'
lufamious Duclcse.' 'Hl 3 char-rges ar-re
high says wan. 'I found a fihhbcne in his
T SIT a * oth * r - 'He's a thraitor,' says
a third. 'A base th' soup kitchen, k base
th cafe, says they, an' they seize th' un
fortunate Duclose an' bate him an' upset Ws
DhX. 1 ? b o r r-* M h r time -*«£ <£
unryniss? Off in _ is comfortable ca&e
swinging on th' perch in' atin' seed out^f a
small bottle stuck in th' wire. Be th' Sm*
th mob has destroyed what they s c en th'
way they've f'rgot th' Cap wtirely an- _e?_
safe f'r another day. 3
VrZ\ Un . olch ' nit b "t 'tis thrue. Th'
*r-rinch ar're not steady ayeJher in their
politics or their morals. That's where they
get done be th' hated British. Th' dlff'rence
in furrtn policies is the diff'rence between a
second-rate safe blower an' a first-class boon
co steerer. Th' Fr-rinch buy a ton iv dinny
mite, spind five years in dhrillin' a hole
through a steel dure, blow open th' safe, lose
a leg or an ar-rm, an' get away with th'
U bilities iv th' firm. Th' Engl^h dhress up
f'r a Methodist preacher, stick a piece iv
lead pipe in th' talis lv their coat in case iv
Forty-Four Years Ago Now.
Just forty-four years ago St. Paul elected
its first mayor. The year 1.54 was an im
portant one in the city's history. From a
town it assumed the organization of a city
and organized its first* police department!
David Olmstead was elected as mayor, and
in his inaugural address he urged. the neces
sity of a park and water system, and em
phasized the natural beauties of 'the city's
stta and of the great future which it had be
fore it. The other city officers who com
pleted the city government were W. R. Mil
ler, marshal; D. Rohrer, treasurer; O. Sim
mons, justice; aldermen, R. C. Knox, A. T.
Chamblin, R. Marvin, A. L. Larpent'eur* t!
Fanning, C. S. Cave, G. L. Becker, J. R.
Irvine, and J. M. Stone; clerk of tha court,
Sherwood Hough.
* • »
The first daily papers were issued in 1834.
Previously there had been several weeklies,
but these became dailies, and, as a rule, ab
sorbed so much of their space calling each
other names that it was not a great many
years until several of them went out of
print. The Advertiser was tdited by J. A.
Wheelock; the Pioneer, by Eorle S. Good
rich; The Daily Democrat, by C. L. Bmer- !
son: the Daily Times, by T. M. Newson, and \
the Minnesotian was published at St. Anth- i
ony.
* » •
John S. Princs and Richards Gordon were j
among the additions to the personnel of St. j
Paul business men during this year.
* * »
M. N. Kellogg built a house on Sixth i
street in a swamp. In those days there was j
no way of getting from what is now down |
town to Wabasha street without going
around by the way of Twelfth street. Wa
basha street, or "Wabashaw," as i: was then
called, ran along the crest of a high c.iff and
all below was swamp. It was here that the
venerable weather prophet built his house,
just about where the New Ycrk Life building
stands now.
* * *
The city's valuation was $1 300,000.
* * *
The Winslow house, which occupied the
present site of the Metropolitan hotel, was
opened for business during 18J4. Construc
tion of the new International was in progress
and opened the year later.
* » •
For three months of the year the marshal's
receipts were $_,oti., of which $1,550 repre
sented whisky licenses.
* * »
The St. Paul board of trade organized to
protect themselves against wildcat money.
* * *
Oct. 6, six river packets arrived in the
city, bringing to Minnesota 6>o new citi
zens. A great many came to the state during
lso-i, and immigration was perhaps more
marked than for several years preceding and
succeeding. A greater poition of those com
ing to the state immediately took up home
steads in the fertile valley of the Minnesota
and Mississippi rivers.
» » •
Yu-ha-za, a Sioux Indian, was hanged for
murder, on St. Anthony hill. The tree upon
which he expiated his crime still stands on
Dayton avenue, right in the middle of the
sidewalk, just over the brow of the hill.
* • *
The Minnesota State Historical society
moved Into quarters in the new capitol build
ing. The officers during 1554 were Alexander
Ramsey, piesident; David Olmstead, vice
president; Dr. Thomas Foster, second vice
president; J. W. Bond, treasuier; Rev. E. D.
Neill, secretary.
The Old Ga» About Prosperity.
We are sorry to see that prosperity is at
ita old tricks again, lt is making a carelesi*
and happy people forget their political duties.
So Postmaster-General Smith informs us. He
saw the thing distinctly working that way
on his Western trip. Everywhere big cxor>3,
good prices, a prosperous and contented peo
ple, but "no time for politics" — that Is,
no timo for Rerubii'-an politics. The Dem
ocrats are taking artful advantage of pros
perity to "work desperately for success."
How they got time for politics is not ex
plained. Perhaps prosperity is distributed on
a strictly partisan basis, and no Democrat,
need apply. It may be that no Kansas farmer
Is allowed to have any prosperity at all ex
cept on the recommendation of the county
committee, vised by "the eld man." This
would naturally leave the Democrats with
time just hanging heavy ou their hands, and
they would put it al in working desperately
for success, while the unconscious RecuH
licaais were counting up their gains and mak
ing bonfires of cancelled mortgages. Tai.^,
however, shows what a mistake it is to draw
party lines in prosperity.
If we were "prosperity's advance agent."
wo would be just sly enough to make *h_
Democratlc wheel-horses so rich and pros
perous that they, too, would have no time
for politics. Or else we would instantly take
away prosperity from the people whom it
only made apathetic and thankless.
Evidently the present system is wrong. We
saw how it. worked ln IS9O and 1592. Mi*
Kinley and Harrison made the country roll
in wealth, and the only political result was
that tho Republicans forgot to vote. The
postmaster-general plainly fears that the
same thing will occur this year. He pro
poses to change all this, however, by mak
Ing one speech in Cincinnati on the Saturday
before election. But will not such a living
picture as he is of the prosperity resulting
from McKinley 's ejection make even more
voters declare that they have no time tor
politics?— New York Evening Post.
I J
French Character,
emargency an' get all th' money there is In
th' line.
In th' fr-roiu dure comes th' Englishman
with a coon king on ayeth. r a.-rm thac'a
jus' loaned him their kingdoms on a proin'3
sory note, an' discover.-- th' Fr-rinchman
emargin' frim th* rc-ona iv th' safe. 'What
ar-re ye doing' here?" says th' Englishman.
'Robbln' th' nay gurs,' says th' Fa--rinchman,
bein' thruthful as well as polite. 'Wicked
man,' says th' Englishman. 'What ar-re y3
doin' here?' pays the Fr-rlnchman. 'Improv
in' the morals lv th' Inhabitant-*,' says th'
Englishman. 'Is it not so, Rastus?' he say a.
'It is,' says wan iv th' kings. 'I'm a poorer
but a betther man since ye cams,* he says.
'Yes,' 3ays th' Englishman, 'I pro-pose f'r to
thruly rayform this enhappy counthry,' he
says. 'This benighted haythen on me ex
threme left has been injooced to cut out a
good deal lv his wife's business,' he says,
'an' go through life torminted be on'y wan
spouse,* he says. 'Th' r-rest will go to
wurruk f'r me,' he says. 'All cap games be
in' particular ongodly'll be undher th'
con-throl iv th' governmint, which
ho says, 'is me. Policy shops'll
be r-run carefully, an' I've appinted Rastus
here Writer-iu-Wai'tin* to Her Majesty,' he
says. 'Th' r-rum they dhrink in these
par-rts,' he says, 'Is fearful,' he says. 'What
shall we do to stop th' ac-cursed thrafhc?
Sell thim gin,' say 31. ' *Tis shameful they
shud ko out with nawthin' to hide their
nakedness,' he says. 'I'll fetch thim clothes,
but,' he says, 'as th' weather's too warrum
f'r clothes, I'll not sell thim annything that'll
last long,' he says. 'If it wasn't f'r relligon,'
he says, 'I don't know what th' 'ell th' wur
ruld wud come to,' he says. 'Who's relligion?'
says th' Fr-rinchman. 'My relligion,' says
th' Englishman. 'These pore, benighTed sav
idges,' he says, ' '11 not be left to ye'er odjious
morals an' ye'er hootchy-kootchy school iv
thought,' he says, 'but,' he says, 'undher Lh'
binif'cint r-rule iv a wise an' thrue govern
mint,' he says, ' '11 be thurly prepared f'r A
Hivin,' he says, 'whin their time comes to
go,' he says, 'which I thrust will not be long,'
he says. 'So, I'll thank ye to be off,' he
says, 'or I'll take th' thick end iv the slung
shot to ye,' he says.
"Th' Fr-rinchman 's a br-rave man, an'
he'd stay an' have It out on th' flure, but
some wan calls: 'A base th' Chinnyinan,'
an' off he goe3 on another thrack. An' whin
he gets to th' Chinnymen he finds th' English
'ye abased thim already. An' so he dances
fr'm wan par-rt iv th' wurruld to another,
like a riochous an' happy flea, an' divvle th'
bit iv progress he makes, on'y thrubble f'r
others an' a merry life f'r himself."
"If England wint to war with France."
said Mr. Hennessy, suddenly, "id be f'r
France."
"So ye wud, Hinnissy. So ye wud," said
Mr. Dooley. -An' I'm not say in' that I
wudden't f'rge-t that I'm an Anglo-Saxon long
enough to take wan crack at th' prince iv
Wales with a coupli'n pin niesilf."
- "'* J
CHOKER'S GOOD ADVICE.
What He Toltl the Vcriers of the
United Colored Democracy.
The colored voters of New York have come
to know and ;rust the Democratic party
chrcugh long and bitter years of experience
with the Republican machine. The United
Colored Democracy is a big west side organ
ization, which recently decided to ratify the
Democratic ticket frcm top to bottom. It
asked Richard Croker, for whom the colored
people generally cf New York are beginning
to have- the highest regard, to be present
and make a speech. Mr. Croker said he was *
not a speechmaker, but he would attend.
And he did, giving them a "short talk" such
as he gives the leaders of Tammany hall
when they ask his counsel and „._.
Here is what he said:
"Mr. Chairman, Members of the United
Colored Democracy oi Greater New York: I
am glad to be ab.e to come here tonight ana
talk with you. I am not going to make any
extended remarks, because your leader, Mr.
Lee, has left nothing for me to say to' you.
1 merely came over here tonight to ask "you
to see to it that your names are placed on
the registration lists next Friday or Sa:urday.
I want to impress on your mi7ds this mam
question, the necessity cf every one of you
I becoming good citizens of this community".
"We make no distincTion in race. I want
\ to say to you now that whatever I can do to
advance the principles and interests of you
all, I am going to do. All I ask of you is
that when you are called upon, you perform
your duty as gcod citizens. If ycu do not
you will have to suffer the consequences.
That is all I ask of the organization that I
have the honor to belong to.
"Mr. Lee is your leader, and whatever I
, do for your organization I do through him.
If one of you ge.s a place and you do Lot
J do your duty fairly and honestly, you will
i have to leave it. But you have the privilege
j of filling it with one of your own race.
I "Now I see quite a lot of young men, and
j I want to give them this advice. You must
in order to become good citizens first treat
| your neighbor as you would like to be treat
ed, and if you follow this advice you will
i get along all righ:. Nov.- the fir3t principles
are gratitude and honesty, and if you fol
low these 'two you need have no fear for your
success in life. I am glad to see Mr. L?e
has started in the right direction by organ
izing this body of colored men. You have
I started in the risjht direction and you have
I the power to make this organization felt in
the community. Be honest and true to your
selves and do not allow any one to swerve
you from that duty you owe "to yourselves.
"You must not work for money on elec
tion day. You want to establish a principe
for yourselves. Whatever work there is to
be done must be done faithfully and honest
ly to bring about the object for which we
are all striving. We want honest voting, and
we want no votes unless they are cast hon
estly. If you hear of any man registering
or voting contrary to law you must report
him. We want the elective franchise carried
out to every letter of the law. If you go to
work, register, and work like good citizens
I will stand by you as I would by the or
ganization to which I have the honor to be
long."
Ejiileptic.
Customer— Does it fit?
Second-Hand Clothier— Fit! Vy, id fits, ot
course: a berfect ebilebtic fit.— Lo: den Judy.
Her Dream of litis*.
A woman who does all the cooking for a
family dreams of no greater pleasure than for
the entire family to be invited out to dinnei
on Sunday.— Atchison Globe. •— ;
Very Much Up t* Date.
No country in the world can compete with
the United States in getting ahead of the vsry
latest maps.— Si. Louis Globe-Democrat.
YOU OUGHT TO HEAR HIM TALK.
He wasn't at El Caney, ncr r.ear Santyago
Town,
He didr.'t let no Spaniard g't a chance to
mow him down,
Ke didn't win no glory, nor he got no gr.at
renown —
r,m you ought to
hear
hl-,i
Talk!
He wasn't at Maniller when the fightin' there
took pla. c.
He wasn't on the Oregon in h.?r m st fam \ii
race,
I No Spaniard ever tried to mala him W6S~
that Mauser-faee —
But you ought to
h:ar
him
Talk!
Ke wasn't no Rough Rider chap down there
with dashin' T^d.
He never frit the penetratta' power of ru-h
--in' lead.
He never showed no signs of havin' blooifc
he wanted Bhed—
But you ought to
hoar
hLm
Talk!
He wasn't down at Tampa where the alli
gators fly,
Where the rain came down anl s:aked him
just as soon as he got dry,
Where the hardest thing was hardtack an'
the riskiest was pie—
But you ought to
hear
him
Talk!
In fact, he's never been away except two
days last fall.
He's heard the soldiers talkin', though ant
thinks he knows it all-
He's the man that does the sweepln' out
Down at the Armory hal,
And you ought to
hear
him
Talk!
—Baltimore American.